Personal Essay

1901 Puck cartoon about monopolies

Opinion: The world has moved on. But it need not stay this way forever

By Cory Doctorow | Magazine, Opinion, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age

By Alex Wellerstein | Magazine, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

traffic warden with rifle and mask

The brutal, powerful legacy of Threads

By Daniel W. Drezner | Magazine, Opinion, Personal Essay

Introduction: Doomsday and the movies

By Dan Drollette Jr | Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics, Uncategorized

VIP observers of H-bomb test

How the movies (and the rest of the media) made me into an anti-nuclear weapons campaigner

By Helen Caldicott | Magazine, Opinion, Personal Essay

Lawrence Korb, then a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, testifies about the war in Iraq before the House Armed Services Committee on July 27, 2007. (UPI Photo/David Brody)

An appreciation of Lawrence J. Korb, a wide-ranging national security expert. And a very good friend to have.

By Stephen J. Cimbala | Personal Essay

Why I started a ‘hotline’ for young people seeking peace

By Ivan Siluianov | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow

January 2026—The fiction issue

By Dan Drollette Jr | Artificial Intelligence, Arts + Science Initiative Media Coverage, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Fiction, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Magazine, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay, Satire

spinning top under high-speed photography

And the winners of our fiction contest are…

By John Mecklin | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

snipers in camouflage

A Modest Briefing

By Robert Levinson | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

the War Room in the movie Dr Strangelove

Countdown

By Alex Dabertin | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics

Seminole leader Osceola in 1838, painted by George Catlin

On Behalf of Lake Owakeela

By Elaine Midcoh | Fiction, Magazine, Personal Essay, Special Topics